Zev Averbach
Senior Python Developer at Vitol
Bardonnex, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolZev Averbach is a Senior Python Developer with 12 years of experience building reliable, automated systems for both startups and large enterprises, now contributing at Vitol from Geneva. He founded and scaled a boutique transcription business where he automated 90% of operations, designed its software stack, and led distributed teams—bringing product-minded engineering to operational problems. Zev has strong data and pipeline experience from roles at Caterpillar and elsewhere, working with Snowflake, Airflow and SQL to keep hundreds of pipelines running and to automate auditing workflows. An active open-source contributor, he has improved IMAP tooling in the popular imbox project, adding Gmail-specific support and UID-range searches. Practical, detail-oriented and curious, he combines systems-level reliability with a knack for pragmatic refactors that reduce long-term maintenance.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree History, Bachelor's degree History at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (12)
python10
imap10
documentation10
api-design9
testing8
datetime6
pandas6
microsoft-teams6
azure-devops-restapi6
python-dataclasses6
sqlalchemy6
fileio6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
martinrusev/imbox
Jul 2018 - Oct 2018
Python IMAP for Agentic Workflows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 6 PRs, 27 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Zev primarily contributed to the `imbox` library, focusing on improvements to its IMAP functionality. They added documentation for query keyword arguments, fixed variable names in the documentation, and removed unused arguments. The user also refactored the code by moving methods and classes, such as `query_ids`, `fetch_list` and `fetch_email_list`, to improve the structure of the library. Furthermore, they added support for Gmail-specific IMAP extensions and UID range searches.
agentic-workflowimappythonagentsautomation
zevaverbach/zevaverbach.github.io
Jul 2018 - Jan 2026
Contributions:77 pushes, 1 branch, 3 issues in 7 years 7 months
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